Improved car-coupling



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MANUEL VAN SLYKE AND D. WOOD, OF ROME, NEW YORK.

IMPR VED CAR-CO'U'PLING.

Tue Schedule Icfen'ed to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. V

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that we, M AXUEL 'VAN SLYKE and D.

W. W00, of Rome, in the conntyof Oneida., and

State ot' N ew York, have invcnted n new and useful Improvement in Car-Uonpling; and we do,hereby declare that the following is a, tnll, clear, and exact description thercof; which w il| enable others skilled in the at to make and use the same, refl-rente being had to the acconpanying drawings, t'orning part of this spc-ification.

Fignre l is it detail sectional Yivw of onr improved car-conpling, as attu-hed t0 a box or freight-car( Figure' 2 is a front View ot'thc same. v

Our i'nrention has for its object an improvement in' cer-couplings; and

It consists in the Construction and combination of paris, as hercinafter more fully described.

A'is the lnnnper-hcad, which may be Secured to the car B, in the ordinary manner,

The month ot' the humper-head A is made bell or hOppcr-shaped, to guide the conpling-link G into proper position in the coupling-box.

1) is the coupling-hook', which is placed in a slot in the upper side of the bumpe'-head A, and is pivotcd to said buIper-head by a pin or bolt passing hoizon-. tally through holes in the sides of the bumper-hezul A, and through a short slot or oblog hole in the hook 1), so that when the draught is applied draughtstrain nay .he supported by the solid part a! of the uppor side of .the lm'per-head.

The pper part of the fnward edge of the hook D is bevclled oti', and also the part a of the bumper- 'head A, against which it 'ests in such a way that the hook is hevelled or ronnded od', so that'thc enteringlink C, when the cars are run together, may raise the said hook, and pass into the conpling-box.

The shoulder of the hook D that the link C rests against, in sustaining the draught-strain, is inclined or cnrved, so that the tendency of the draught-strain may be to draw the hook do'wnward, and thns hold it secn-ely in place. i

The rear end of the hook D extends in the rem' of the pivoting-piu or bolt, and in a; 'ecess in the bumper-head beneath; and beyond the said reat' end of the hook D, is placed a spring, F, the free end of which presses npward against the under sideof the p'ojectig realend ot' the hook D, to hold said hook securely in place and prevent the said hook t'ron being raised by asudden jolt or jar, and thus uncouple the cars accidentally. The spring E should be covered by a. projecting part or partition of the bumpeghead, to protect it from accidental inj ury. i

To the uppor partof the forward end of the hook D is a-ttached the lower end ot' the short chain F, the npper end of which is attauhed-to the iner end of the lever G, which is pivoted to the body or platform ofthe car, and its out-.end extends ont into such a" position. that; it may be convenien'tly rached and; operated from the side of the cin' for nncoupling the; cars.

Theonter part' of the lever G passes through'a keeper H attachcd to the body or platfm'm ot' the car, 5 and which is forned, or with' which is connected, u'

double catch, I, to hold the lever G, both when the hook D is down and when it is desircd to hold-the said hook raised.

J is ;L level', the iowe' end of which is pivotcd to the outcr part of the, lever Gand which extends up into such a, position that it may be reached and operated to nncouple the cars from the top 'of the czn'.

The lever J passes np through an eye-bolt or keeper, attached to the car, to keep the said leter in proper position, and which serves also as a fulcrnm to enable the lever G to be detached from the catch` I by means of the said lever J.

Having tlus described onr invention,

lVe claim as new, and desire to secure by 'Letters Patcnt- V e The combinntion of the double catch I, with the bar J and lever G, whereby the conpling-hook D may be held in an elevated position, or its undue'clevation by conhinedweight of said ber and leverbe prerented, all constructed as hereinbetbre shown and described.

M. VAN SLYKE. D. W. WOOD.

'witnesses:

HnNnY HAGER, GEORGE DIKERSON. 

